How do we become better people?
Is there a self-help class we can attend, perhaps a university course teaching The Best Me I Can Become?
Or is it something closer to home, a process of self-awareness, one where we pay attention to what we do each day and try to fix things we don’t like?
Do we need to change everything about us? Or are we pretty much okay, and the little changes we make are because God asks us to?
Here’s a big change God sets before us if we want to become the best self we can be.
Proverbs 22:22 says:
“Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate.”
We read this with relief. That’s not us. We’ve not robbed or crushed anyone.
But wait!
Do not rob the poor. Have we driven by a panhandler at a signal light and thought, “Get a job and you won’t have to beg”?
Do not crush the afflicted. Do we move to the opposite side of the street to avoid the homeless person, dismissing them as a blight on the city streets?
Let’s be the best person we can be. We’ll become our best self when we become selfless in helping others in their need.
Jesus gave himself for us, and the poor and afflicted need us to be the hand of Jesus unto them.
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